Thursday Open Comments

Here are ten ways in which the current open-border policy is insidiously impacting the United States:

1. Legal Immigration Conundrum

Legal immigration seems to be overshadowed as the bureaucratic red tape increases for law-abiding applicants. The Biden administration’s focus on amnesty for lawbreakers raises concerns about the future support for immigration, both legal and illegal.

2. Lawlessness and Erosion of Rule of Law

The apparent lawlessness at the border contributes to the overall breakdown of the rule of law in the country, manifesting in increased homelessness, crime rates, and a general disrespect for legal procedures.

3. Dependency on Entitlements

The pattern of illegal entry followed by applications for various subsidies raises questions about the type of residents the U.S. desires. The current system appears to discourage self-supporting immigrants in favor of those seeking immediate entitlements.

4. Cui Bono – Who Benefits?

The motivations behind the acceptance of illegal immigrants, especially by the Left and employers, raise questions about the broader economic and political implications. The massive outflow of remittances to Mexico and its potential impact on U.S. foreign policy come into focus.

5. Cartel Infiltration

The unchecked flow of individuals across the border includes cartel members transporting dangerous drugs. This poses a significant threat to public health and safety, contributing to the opioid crisis in the U.S.

6. Trashing Citizens’ Rights

Equating illegal aliens with American citizens in terms of opportunities and entitlements diminishes the value of citizenship. The discrepancy in treatment, such as lenient boarding standards for illegal aliens, raises concerns about the government’s priorities.

7. Financial Burden

With a growing national debt and budget deficits, the financial strain of welcoming millions of unaudited immigrants becomes a pressing issue. California’s model, with its budget deficit and social service overload, serves as a cautionary tale.

8. Ending Deterrence

The erosion of deterrence, both domestically and internationally, is a consequence of the perceived weakness in the U.S. response to various challenges. This includes the testing of the U.S. by foreign entities and the exploitation of the open border by opportunistic belligerents.

9. The DEI Narrative

The current immigration narrative seems to undermine the traditional melting pot concept, instead emphasizing divisions based on race and ethnicity. This approach may hinder assimilation and integration, fostering separatism.

Curse On America

The ironic aspect of immigrants fleeing countries where they are a majority to a nation allegedly defined by “white privilege” raises questions about the true motivations behind this mass migration. The disconnect between rhetoric and reality is highlighted.

 

 


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  1. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Looks like we have more required reading and I’ll check it out but first coffee!

    Texpat did our grandbaby arrive safely overnight? Oh and I bet Texpat and HH have been up all night.

    Mornin’ Gang!

  2. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    I found a truism in the O.C. piece.

    Democrat Vs Republican

    Sadly there is way too much truth in that cartoon.

  3. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    L.E.D Zeppelin        😀

     

  4. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Hey, Everybody !

  5. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Congratulations !!

  6. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Awwwright! Congratulations all around. Some very good news to start the day.

  7. Tedtam Avatar

    I’ve heard it said that all babies start out looking like Winston Churchill.

    Mine didn’t, nor did Sunshine or LD2.  But a majority of them, yes.

    I remember two big things I noticed when Sunshine was born.  Those blue eyes and how she kept sticking her tongue out and in, like she was tasting the world.

  8. Tedtam Avatar

    And yes, I’m sure the Texpat family are all sleeping in.  Except Momma, of course.  She’s just sleeping when she can.

  9. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    All right TexpaT!!!! Congratulations to the new Momma and family

    MATSAH BALLS

    or something like that.

  10. Tedtam Avatar

    I just heard Chris Salcedo that we are now importing more illegals than American citizens being born.

    Let that sink in.

  11. Tedtam Avatar

    Texpat’s family has done their part, anyway.  😉

  12. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    #4 TP:  She is just making it clear that the lights are too danged bright in here!

     

    MAZEL TOV!

  13. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    A few days ago, I was walking through the room and HH had the radio on WABC and some woman came on and started talking at length about national security and defense.  I had no idea who she was, but she was so articulate, persuasive and intelligent I decided she should be our next SecDef.  

    This morning Glenn Reynolds links to a WSJ op-ed piece on nuclear deterrence and, lo and behold, it is the same woman – Rebeccah Heinrichs.

    For all you slackers out there, this lady gets it done and makes everybody else feel lazy.

    Rebeccah L. Heinrichs is a senior fellow at Hudson Institute and the director of its Keystone Defense Initiative. She specializes in US national defense policy with a focus on strategic deterrence.

    Ms. Heinrichs currently serves as a commissioner on the bipartisan Strategic Posture Commission, which was created in the Fiscal Year 2022 National Defense Authorization Act. She also serves on the US Strategic Command Advisory Group and the National Independent Panel on Military Service and Readiness.

    She is an adjunct professor at the Institute of World Politics where she teaches nuclear deterrence theory and is also a contributing editor of Providence: A Journal of Christianity and American Foreign Policy.

    Ms. Heinrichs earned her MA in national security and strategic studies from the US Naval War College and graduated with highest distinction from its College of Naval Command and Staff, receiving the Director’s Award for academic excellence. She earned her BA in history and political science from Ashland University in Ohio, was an Ashbrook Scholar, and currently serves as a member of the University’s Board of Trustees. She is enrolled at Missouri State University pursuing her doctorate of defense and strategic studies.

    She lives in Virginia with her husband and their five children.

    That is not all.  Ms. Heinrichs is drop-dead gorgeous.

     

     

  14. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Texpat

    W H U T?

    That is not all.  Ms. Heinrichs is drop-dead gorgeous.

    Drop-dead gorgeous?  Pffffffftttttttt.  Attractive maybe, gorgeous not and drop dead gorgeous nope no way huhuh.

    Your objectify function is about a half bubble off plumb dude.

  15. Tedtam Avatar

    Why is it that conservative women who are considered intelligent are also generally prettier than their counterparts on the left?

    I’m not assuming that the libs are as intelligent, btw – just considered intelligent.  But then, the left confuses intelligence and competence with things like skin color and emotions.

  16. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Staring through those lenses all these years has destroyed Squawk’s eyesight.  I hope Bsue does the driving.

    Of course, his legendary culinary crimes call into question matters of taste…

  17. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    The journal mentioned in the Heinrichs bio looks pretty interesting.  Anything Walter Russell Mead is involved in is worthwhile.

    Providence: A Journal of Christianity and American Foreign Policy

    It is published by the Institute for Religion and Democracy.

  18. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    We’re now up to 24 bus loads of illegals catching mass transit in New Jersey for NYC.

    Heh.

  19. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Ms. Heinrichs

    Attractive √

    Smart as a whip √

    Gentile version of Caroline Glick √

    Drop dead gorgeous?  Nah

    If you describe someone as, for example, drop-dead gorgeous, you mean that they are so gorgeous that people cannot fail to notice them. (Failed)

    5 picture test (marginal)

  20. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I am reposting the nuclear deterrence op-ed from earlier.  Heinrichs reveals the kind of below-the-radar national defense blunders Biden is trying to make.  He has people out there trying to sell his cheap choices.

    The most dangerous global security development at the dawn of 2024 is China’s and Russia’s reliance on nuclear weapons to break the U.S.-led order. Russia is concluding a nuclear recapitalization effort and uses nuclear threats against Ukraine and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. China is expanding its nuclear forces and engaging in dangerous military behavior in international waters to threaten Taiwan. Moscow may be helping Beijing expand its warhead production capacity through Russia’s state-owned Rosatom, which has provided enriched uranium for China’s fast-breeder reactor.

    plus this,

    Keir Lieber and Daryl Press, among others, disagree. They argued for targeting opponents’ cities to avoid an “excessively demanding approach to deterrence.” Targeting cities might limit the number of U.S. weapons needed for deterrence, but there are three reasons the U.S. should continue its current policy while updating its nuclear force posture to meet new challenges.

    First, threatening to nuke societal targets has a high risk of deterrence failure. Five decades ago, President Nixon’s defense secretary, James Schlesinger, rejected a policy of threatening to wipe out entire cities. He argued that to make U.S. nuclear deterrence more credible to the Soviets, who had amassed a large nuclear force, Washington needed to target what the Soviet regime prized most: the regime itself, its strategic and conventional systems, the apparatus it used for domestic control, and its industrial ability to wage war. Threatening to target Soviet cities and intentionally kill civilians wasn’t likely to deter the Soviets from their imperialist agenda.

    Schlesinger was right.

    RTWDT.

  21. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I have to hit the road.

    Later.

  22. Tedtam Avatar

    GODS OF CHAOS ☙ Thursday, January 4, 2024 ☙ C&C NEWS

    Good morning, C&C, it’s Thursday! Sorry for the late delivery. Lots and lots to cover in today’s packed roundup: deposed Harvard president continues to dominate the news cycle; more progress appears as the AP gets beat up over its dumb “Republicans Pounce!” article; and more evidence that the culture around DEI is changing (for the better); a SADS airline cluster; court releases massive Epstein document dump; Florida breaks the mRNA mold into a billion pieces; Trump appeals Colorado primary ballot ban; and space news suggests scary mythological creatures approach Earth.

    News:

    Reporting continues on the Claudine Gay fiasco…how she (and her supporters, including various media) continues to double down on the racism claims instead of her cheating habits and incompetence.

    Meanwhile, anti-DEI warrior Christopher Rufo published an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal yesterday headlined, “How We Squeezed Harvard to Push Claudine Gay Out.”  At one point in his op-ed, Rufo delightfully described Claudine Gay as the apotheosis of DEI bureaucracy. Like me, Rufo sees much progress on the culture war’s  front lines (lightly-edited for brevity):

    First, public support for DEI has cratered. Following the outpouring of sympathy on elite campuses for Hamas, many Americans—including many center-left liberals—began to question the sweet-sounding euphemisms of DEI and examine what they mean in practice.
    Second, the political right has learned how to fight more effectively. Any activist campaign has three points of leverage: reputational, financial and political. Journalists applied reputational pressure, exposing Gay’s alleged plagiarism and Harvard’s scandalous effort to cover it up. Donors, led by hedge-fund manager Bill Ackman, applied financial pressure, withholding contributions. And Congress applied political pressure, exposing Gay’s equivocations on antisemitism.
    The nation’s leading university had subordinated veritas to politics, compromising its mission. The only choice was to force Ms. Gay to step down.

    Rufo goes on to claim that conservatives are finally getting a system down for battling the left, and that we are making inroads.

    Like me, Rufo apparently rejects the Superman theory of politics and understands that, having slept at our posts for so long and having allowed the enemy to comfortably nestle inside the camp, we face an extended battle, less of a singular battle and more of a series of intimate surgeries and recoveries.

    Rufo says we must take this Harvard success into a “deeper institutional fight” – a “grueling form of trench warfare” that involves challenges must be taken on to reclaim the culture.

    That leads to Twitter/X’s “community notes,” where many folks weighed in to point out that Gay violated Harvard’s rules, etc., in protest of her claims that racism was behind her getting her butt kicked out of office.  She has been publicly fact-checked/shamed:

    Fact-checked! Turnabout might be fair play, but it is also delicious, in a very Schadenfreudey kind of way. Musk and his software engineers — and their Community Notes tool — have lifted us regular folks up to the same level on the social media platform as Establishment Media. It’s an equalizer deleting the AP’s ability to dominate the discussion by default.

    In a smaller but no less amusing self-inflicted injury, the AP was also forced to stealth-edit its Claudine Gay story yesterday (violating its own policy requiring all edits to be disclosed) following merciless mocking of the story’s completely unnecessary and ahistorical claim that the Cowboys — and not the Indians — invented scalping. I’m not making that up.

    It is good to see the lying liars that lie get publicly pilloried by the common folk.  Childers points out that Rufo, et al, are turning the left’s tool around and poking them with their own equipment.

    Accusations of plagiarism have long been part of the left’s academic bloodsport right down to the K-12 level. Which is another reason the AP’s headline was so misleading, since the media giant falsely called ‘plagiarism’ a new rightwing weapon, but I digress. You get the point: Rufo is teaching conservatives how to play the liberals’ grisly game.

    DIE must die!

  23. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    The baby looks just like gramps.

  24. Tedtam Avatar

    From the Suddenly & Unexpectedly Department:

    More aviation deaths, this time two British Airways flight attendants drop in one week.  What are the odds?

    One of them collapsed just as the jet was about to head for the runway.  Despite immediate medical care being provided, the FA never recovered.  The passengers (sans Karens) were understandably shook by watching the events unfold before their eyes.

    The second FA was only 52, and fortunately/unfortunately died in his hotel room.

    The British Airways family is devastated and confused as to why two healthy FA’s would drop dead in one week.

    It’s not just that two flight attendants died in the same week. That would be unusual but not impossible. It’s that two healthy flight attendants of the same age died suddenly with no prior medical issues in the same week on the same airline. The odds of this clustering of cases beggar the imagination and call for an immediate investigation of a cause.

    But don’t hold your breath!

  25. Tedtam Avatar

    Re: Epstein documents – Childers prompts folks to withhold enthusiasm until the documents are fully digested.

    Clinton was mentioned often, of course, despite his protestations that he wasn’t friends with the perf.  I’ve seen where Dershowitz wants “everything to be made public” so he can defend himself.

    Among names linked to Epstein in the newly-disclosed court records — some already known, some new — were low-lights like Prince Andrew; celebrity magician David Copperfield; New Mexico Governor, UN Ambassador and former Clinton Energy Secretary Bill Richardson (D); top modeling talent scout Jean Luc Brunel; Clinton-era Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell (D); leftwing celebrity lawyer Alan Derschowitz (who represented Epstein in court); Clinton’s former FBI director and Penn State child sex veteran Louis Freeh; and Hyatt Hotel billionaire Thomas Pritzger (also a democrat).

    /snip

    I am wildly speculating here, but a remarkable, record-setting number of congresspeople unexpectedly resigned this year. At least two dozen Democrats and over a dozen Republicans left or announced plans to leave Congress in 2023, which Axios described as “a historic deluge of retirements.”

    Related to Epstein?  Or Trump?

  26. Tedtam Avatar

    The Lefty got triggered when the Florida surgeon general called for a halt on all mRNA jabs:

    The short version was that Corporate Media got badly triggered yesterday when Florida’s Surgeon General called for a halt to the mRNA jabs after the FDA failed to meaningfully respond to his letters seeking clarification of DNA contamination and what the FDA has done to ensure that the jabs’ stray DNA cannot possibly integrate into human cells.

    Although it won’t say so directly, the FDA’s answer seems to be: they did nothing. So Dr. Ladapo poked the Establishment right in the eye by issuing a formal guidance calling for ‘a halt in the use of covid-19 mRNA vaccines.’ This created a firestorm of unhinged criticism, but succeeded in breaking corporate media’s omertà on Dr. Ladapo’s questions….

    Poppycock. The theory is not ‘discredited.’ It isn’t even a theory. It’s a scientific question: can the boatloads of contaminated DNA in the mRNA shots get into cell nuclei or not? It’s not Ladapo’s job to prove whether that can happen. That’s the FDA’s job.

    You had one job, FDA.

    In an interview with Steve Bannon yesterday, Dr. Ladapo explained the contamination problem in lay terms and made this remarkable statement:

    “The evidence has been completely provided by the FDA … These vaccines are the antichrist of all products … it’s a complete disrespect to the human genome and the importance of protecting it … and that is our connection to God.”

    Link to Bannon’s interview with Ladapo: https://x.com/CommiesOnCampus/status/1742911839636181002?s=20

    Ladapo points out that in 2007 the FDA advised that cells can be genetically modified from the jab: ‘DNA contamination’.

    The FDA said this.  Let that sink in.

    … In order to get to the next stage, to prove harms and to start talking specifically about accountability, we must first cross a conceptual Rubicon: the vaccines are — or may be — defective.

    … To reach Accountability Station, the Establishment’s position must change, even a little. Just one little crack in the wall would do it.

    So the news is: Florida has become the first state to official designate the mRNA shots as potentially defective and therefore unsafe. In other words, the burden of proof has finally shifted — at least, in Florida. Dr. Ladapo is saying that it’s not our job to prove the shots were dangerous. It’s the Establishment’s job to prove its approved medications were safe.

    In other words, given the contamination, there is no evidence the shots are safe.

    Well done, Florida, well done.

  27. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Cute baby! Glad that worked out OK, Texpat.

  28. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    Oh boy!
    another letter from the sans-a-belt slacks gang.

    They’re only about 35 years late on the immigration disaster but what the heck.

    it’s an election year so they gotta pretend they’re gonna do something.

    they have to go to the border to see what’s going on because they have no idea that the the Kenyan via his wooden dummy are obliterating the country. Guess they don’t know what tablets, iPhones or computers are so they could see the tons of videos out there showing illegal aliens pouring into eagle pass Texas.
    Way to go Abbott.

    and they still don’t have the balls to impeach the fake real/real fake wooden dummy or Fidel mayporkis.

    New year. Same old sad sack republicant’s.

  29. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    buhwahahahahahah

    Epstein’s full list of names.  Includes Trump which brings me to my belief he cannot be trusted if he gets a second term.

    HOWEVER Inclusion of the names does not indicate any wrongdoing related to Epstein or anyone else.

  30. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
    Dr phil Good-E=1984

    Additionally, all of the previous claims about Donald Trump being associated with that perverse industry and assembly are false {Citation Here}.

  31. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Phil Magness to be interviewed on FNC in a few minutes… on the Harvard stuff.

  32. Tedtam Avatar

    I took some stuff upstairs for storage.   I moved one thing, then another…before I knew it, I was involved in a major effort.  I’m aiming to clear out a corner of the bedroom and moving my office from the dining room table to that area upstairs.  That corner is about 70% there.  Hubby and Handyman had shoved a bunch of my crafting stuff there from the storage area previous so they could lay the new flooring down.  Same for allllllllllll of that paperwork and office supplies from the office.  It’s a lot of stuff.

    While moving that stuff I found another stash of food that got caught up in the flooring storm.  So I made sure I moved it all into the upstairs pantry and logged it on paper, to be input into my spreadsheet.  I found a couple of cans of tuna fish and …chicken?… that looked suspect so they got tossed.

    I decided to stop before I put myself back on crutches.  Want to get some serious desk work done and then make a dent in my overdue Latin homework.   The treadmill may not get done today – resting the knee and back, and the time constraint.

  33. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    It is a beautimous day here in LA, 62, bright an sunny. I made the Enterprise Grocery run, Publix, Gaint Leper Colony and the bread store.  Off to the Pig here in Podunk to finish up. It sure is aggravating that not all the stores have what I want. Where’s HEB when you need them? 😉

  34. Tedtam Avatar

    I got a notice regarding my Latin class:

    Salvete, Discipuli et Discipulae,
    Ecclesia Annuntiatio habebit Officinam de Canto Gregoriano hac Feria Quinta. Multi discipuli nostri aderunt, ergo 
    Classem Latinam non habebimus cras.
    Proxima classis erit sequens hebdomada.
    Videbo vos omnes sequente hebdomada! (January 11).

    Valete et semper salvete,

    It seems class is being canceled tonight because there’s a chant workshop going on and some of the Latin students are attending.

    I have more time….

  35. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    13:49 granny

    Reminded me of one of those on-scene reporters asking people in a crowd at one of those big protests on the mall in DC what their particular issues were that they were protesting.  One of them listened to part of the question, then interrupted the reporter, telling him that it was now time to chant.

  36. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    #4 Texpat,

    A lovely welcome to the beautiful baby girl.  I am sure the family is so happy to receive the new princess into the clan at last. 🙂

  37. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    The baby looks just like gramps.

    * except on her it works

  38. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    26 Adee

    You have no idea how relieved the mother is.

  39. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I am wondering if there is a source with clear definitions of the nature of the relationships the people had with Epstein on this famous list.

    Does someone who accepted a ride on his plane from NYC to Florida who was going there anyway get blacklisted like Bill Clinton who might have taken 50 rides to Epstein’s Predatory Pervert Island ?

    Does the guy who showed up at his New Mexico ranch and remodeled the house get dragged into this ?  How about the plumber in NYC ?

    Does an unwitting, uninformed companion of a dinner party guest at Epstein’s homes in Palm Beach, NYC or New Mexico get stained along with a hedge fund boss who committed statutory rape with multiple minors trafficked by Epstein ?

    Jeffrey Epstein was an incessant self-promoting, extreme narcissist who probably had hundreds of dinner parties and social events that looked innocent to invitees who were there only to elevate Epstein’s public profile.  There were not semi-nude 16 and 17 year old girls flouncing around these events.  Epstein and Ghislaine did maintain a two faceted operation.*

    Techo Fog, a reliable source for years on Twitter, has stated there have already been names of people leaked who were witnesses or physicians who testified against Epstein, but have been construed as Epstein’s guests.

    * I have read quotes from people with enough street smarts who saw just enough to strongly suspect something strange, unethical and/or illegal was going on, but they never told anyone.

  40. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    The saga of our new SUV with the electric engine limps along.  We got an advisory from General Motors that our 2024 model year Chevrolet Blazer EV “may have a condition in which the vehicle’s electric modules drain the 12V battery.”!!!   Kinda like a golfcart I suppose, when the battery is dead, you get out and push it ? Kinda seems to fit in as a “Mea culpa, Mea culpa, Mea maxima culpa” situation. Translated from the Latin: “Through my fault, through my fault, through my most grievest fault.”

    Called the dealer who said can you bring it in around 9 tomorrow?  Which we did yesterday and contacted them again today.  Dealer’s car repair people have already ordered replacement electronic stuff for some of the problems and just today said they need to order something else important that will likely come from some distance.  The thing was originally assembled in Mexico….  And I’m beginning to think it is hexed.

    The dealer is embarrassed of course, but GM is the one that should really be embarrassed.  Dealer told us when it first went on display it only had 6 miles on it, and the test drive we took in it added up to maybe 15 miles, not nearly enough to suspect anything was wrong.  Spouse says it has about 800 miles on it now from driving locally.   If we are going any distance, we take the “normal” Buick sedan.  Until the new vehicle is really fixed, it isn’t coming home.

  41. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    There are numerous reasons to not trust Donald Trump and virtually every other politician, for that matter.

    I’m not ready to condemn everybody who shows up on the infamous List. Epstein’s M/O was to surround himself constantly with famous and influential people to create the aura of his financial genius and elite celebrity status.

    People fell into categories for him – famous people whose fame would rub off on him, ultra-wealthy people whose money & power could be useful and then the politicians whose authority and power could be manipulated by blackmail for committing sexual felonies.

    Members of any of these three categories could have shown up on Epstein’s island in the Caribbean and be on video tapes hidden somewhere.  The most likely however are the members of the third class – the politicians.

    This is Newsweek’s fact-check, for what it’s worth:

    Trump flew on Epstein’s jet four times in 1993, as well as once in 1994, 1995, and 1997. The flights were between Palm Beach, Florida, and New York City airports, with the 1994 flight stopping at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.

    Trump and Epstein had a reported friendship, with the Republican telling New York magazine in 2002 that he’d known Epstein for 15 years and that he was a “terrific guy.” However, he distanced himself from his comments following Epstein’s arrest and said they had not spoken in years.

    Some had speculated that the unsealing of court documents, related to a lawsuit by Virginia Giuffre against Ghislaine Maxwell, would reveal new information about Trump and Epstein.

    However, the document revealed no wrongdoing. Trump’s spokesperson Steven Cheung stated in response to the documents’ release that any claims regarding Trump’s relationship with Epstein were “thoroughly debunked.”

    I’m not here to prosecute or defend Trump or most anybody else except for that modeling agency operator Jean Luc Brunel.  He was probably an even bigger creep than Epstein.

    One thing that does make a large difference for me is the 2007 federal indictment of Epstein.  I’m much more inclined to understand people being linked to him before that time.

    Anybody who had anything to do with Jeffrey Epstein after 2007 was a fool.  It was in the news and online everywhere and there are zero excuses for being seen walking on the same side of street with that sleazebag post-2007.

  42. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    30 Adee

    I am sorry you’re having so many problems with the EV SUV.  I’m sure it’s very frustrating with the exorbitant cost of trucks and cars these days.

    I’m a hard case.  I will stay with my internal combustion engine driven vehicle until they come out with a flying car fueled by the tears of leftwingers.

  43. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    32 Texpat,

    At the moment, spouse is also greatly annoyed to say the least by the current situation but wants to hang in there and get everything fixed as it should be.  I have only sat in the front passenger seat on each occasion I’ve ridden in it so far, and it is very comfortable to sit in once adjusted for my 5’2″ size.

    And we have figured out how elderly folk seem to lose physical stature.  That doesn’t change, you just stop standing up straight.  🙂

  44. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Adee

    I’ve always been conscious of posture and stature.  My mother and grandmother were big on making young boys stand ramrod straight like our grandfather and great-grandfather.

    Actually, my mother and grandmother always had excellent posture because when you are 5′ and 5’2″ working in a man’s world, it’s important to project physical power.

    I notice around me so many older folks even younger than me who have let their posture go and it’s sad.

  45. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Knee deep in grandson’s Holy Matrimonial this fine evening.

    It’s a good thing.

    Handkerchief is pretty much a soaked.

     

  46. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    Congratulations to texpat and all his family.

     

    Babies rule!!!

  47. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    Congratulations to Shannon!

  48. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    Ya’ll let me know if that image worked.

  49. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I have a new baby granddaughter and Shannon’s grandson is getting fabulously married and one more extraordinarily sad thing happening in my life – all at the same time.

    It is the Cycle of Life…

    To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
    A time to be born, and a time to die;
    A time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
    A time to kill, and a time to heal;
    A time to break down, and a time to build up;
    A time to weep, and a time to laugh;
    A time to mourn, and a time to dance;

     

  50. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    39 Darren

    It works fine.  Very clever.

  51. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    This is a video of a small, aging crowd of protesters in front of Bill Ackman’s office building in NYC claiming racism caused the resignation of Claudine Gay at Harvard.  Al Sharpton is leading the chant and he’s losing his wind.

    As Christopher Rufo says: I don’t think there is anybody there under 50.

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